Video recording: As the real estate market booms and busts, and communities increase and wan, this session will prepare mediators to be ready to mediate the disputes that will follow, including addressing new issues in condominium and homeowners’ association law mandatory ADR, and real estate in general. Explore recent decisions that impact your mediation and arbitration practices, including decisions
impacting ethical issues and in the area of real property law. Understand how the appellate courts reach their holdings.
Video recording: There is a confusing array of communication protections across the spectrum of DR methods and no clear rationale for the varying communication protections.
This interactive workshop:
1. invites participants to consider differences between communication protections for mediation, collaborative law, and parenting coordination.
2. introduces a new term, privadentiality, to better describe DR communication protections
3. offers a framework for categorizing DR methods in order to develop more meaningful and understandable communication protections across the spectrum of DR.
Video recording: Human trafficking is an ugly epidemic in our world, and it is impacting Central Florida with force. Learn how human trafficking intersects with individuals in various industries and with social media. Equip yourself with the knowledge to recognize human trafficking and respond quickly, safely.
Video recording: This workshop will explore communication barriers and issues relating to generational differences in the mediation process. Special attention will be given to how to improve
communication in mediation to ensure all participants understand and feel included in the process regardless of age. Theories regarding communication styles and conflict will be addressed followed by a
brainstorming session on best practices to avoid communication pitfalls during the process. This will include a review of relevant mediation rules, statutes and MEAC opinions.
Video recording: Emotional intelligence or EI is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. This workshop will teach People a high degree of emotional intelligence know what they’re feeling, what their emotions mean, and how these emotions can affect other people. Emotional intelligence is essential and is the foundation of all mediation and dispute resolution. After all, who is more likely to walk away from a dispute resolved – someone who shouts and creates a stressful environment or someone who stays in control, and calmly assesses the situation.
Video recording: The human conflict condition is three-dimensional: cognitive, emotional, and behavioral - each interdependent on the other. How we experience and process conflict is predictable if we understand how/where this activity originates and is processed in the brain. Likewise, when we transition from conflict to resolution, there is notable change in what motivates the brain’s activity. Knowing this, conflict resolution professionals can utilize extremely effective techniques to help the parties move from an emotional state to a cognitive state of decision making.
Video recording: Almost every situation can have a nonmonetary element to the resolution that clinches the deal. A landlord offers advertising in a shopping center flyer, a store owner offers gift certificates, a parent offers additional timesharing, or a party makes an apology. These nonmonetary offers can satisfy an emotional or practical need that makes the resolution possible. Using actual examples from the speaker and the audience, the importance of nonmonetary factors in a mediation will be made clear.
Video recording: This presentation will discuss and explore personal and professional mediation ethics and how it affects a person and the workplace. This presentation will outline the similarities and the differences in ethics and will examine the workplace culture versus personal beliefs and discuss the possible conflicts that arise in an employee’s personal versus professional ethics. This presentation will conclude with examples of how personal and professional ethics may conflict and potential solutions to resolve the conflict.
Video recording: This workshop will review the 2019-2020 MEAC opinions that were published, explain them, and help mediators to understand the practical implications of them. Specifically, we will explore why the MEAC opinions were decided the way they were and how mediators can avoid the ethical problems addressed in each opinion.